The contributor wonders if the problem isn't just a lack of proofreading - but because the youngsters who pass for journalists' these days simply haven't heard of some of the terms they have to write about.
Strange times. People communicate less and less by speech, more and more by the written word, yet more and more seem unable to make themselves clearly understood in writing.
I frequent an online help group for a well known e-commerce platform, and it is by no means rare to struggle to work out just what the problem is, so badly spelled and punctuated are their posts. (I am no grammar nazi. But I need to understand if I am to help.)
"People communicate less and less by speech, more and more by the written word, yet more and more seem unable to make themselves clearly understood in writing."
So much for 'education, education, education', eh?
Strange times. People communicate less and less by speech, more and more by the written word, yet more and more seem unable to make themselves clearly understood in writing.
ReplyDeleteI frequent an online help group for a well known e-commerce platform, and it is by no means rare to struggle to work out just what the problem is, so badly spelled and punctuated are their posts. (I am no grammar nazi. But I need to understand if I am to help.)
Would a chicken malt be whisky or whiskey?
ReplyDeleteDamn, Andy beat me to it. I cry fowl.
ReplyDelete"People communicate less and less by speech, more and more by the written word, yet more and more seem unable to make themselves clearly understood in writing."
ReplyDeleteSo much for 'education, education, education', eh?
"Would a chicken malt be whisky or whiskey?"
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"I cry fowl."
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